This is the second movement of the two-movement "Color Wheels," music composed for the exhibit "The Artist Shelf," featuring still-life and landscape paintings by Irish artist Richard Hearns.  Whereas the first movement, "Acceleration," represents the inspiration and execution of art, the second represents the viewing of and absorption in the finished product -- becoming enchanted with or "lost in" it.

Color Wheels - Secondary: Drift

A track I recorded long ago for a piece of never-finished animation whose working title was "Odd West" -- basically a Western short with no spoken dialogue, set in an alien world.  This music was for a saloon scene, with an alien piano player with one eye and three arms.

Odd-West Saloon Piano

Performed in recital 30 May, 2015, at St. Malachy's - The Actors' Chapel, New York, NY.  Accompanied by Brian Holman.

Reynaldo Hahn: Fleur Fanée

Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues

Unfinished Jump (Opus 13 from the Chamber Blues Suite)

Koulangatta

Complete Recordings of Mississippi John Hurt

Make Me a Pallet On Your Floor

Here's a mash-up of two Christmas songs that depict Santa arriving at a tropical-island destination via canoe: "Christmas Island" and "Here Comes Santa in a Red Canoe."

Christmas Island/Here Comes Santa in a Red Canoe

Absolutely The Best: Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee

Blues For Gamblers

I am a classically trained professional singer who enjoys composing and songwriting.  

Odd-West Saloon Piano

John Des Marais

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